Report: Human error caused Mars Surveyor loss

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April 13, 2007 20:03

Human error triggered a cascade of events that caused the battery to fail on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft last year, according to a preliminary report released Friday.
An internal NASA board determined that power loss likely doomed the spacecraft after a decade of meticulously mapping the Red Planet.

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